Jake Paul says he's moved on from 'liability' Tommy Fury and is ready to rematch ex-UFC champion Tyron Woodley

• Tommy Fury has withdrawn from the December 18 fight with Jake Paul on Showtime PPV.
• YouTuber Paul told Insider he doubts Fury is really injured, and that he's scared to box him.

Jake Paul has moved on from a December 18 fight with boxing rival Tommy Fury to rematch the former UFC champion Tyron Woodley on the same date.

Fury withdrew from the contest, scheduled to take place at the Amalie Arena in Tampa, citing a bacterial chest infection and a broken rib.

Internet sensation Paul told Insider this week that he has doubts about the legitimacy of Fury's injuries, despite being sent medical proof from Team Fury.

"You can pay for a doctor's note, right? So you can't even really believe that," Paul told us. "It just sucks."

Paul said he's "a little upset" about the withdrawal as he was looking forward to defeating Fury.

Fury would have been the first actual boxer to fight Paul, and the pair had been verbally sparring for months.

It is unclear if they will ever be able to renegotiate a match to take place in 2022. For Paul, it is "50-50" at best, because of how much of a liability he claims the Fury family are.

"The same sort of thing could happen again," Paul told us.

"He hasn't been reliable at all. He lied about his mom being sick so he didn't have to go to the press conference in Las Vegas. It's just a liability to sign up to fight somebody who doesn't actually really want to fight.

"For me, I have a bitter taste in my mouth, and I don't know if I want to give this kid the opportunity because he fumbled it.

"People like him don't deserve chances like this because he should have just sucked it up and rose to the occasion."

It's a 'bad case' of what Paul called 'vaginitis'

Paul claims Fury is scared, cracked under the pressure of competing against him to headline a main event on Showtime, and fumbled his chance of glory.

"I classify it as a bad case of vaginitis," Paul told Insider. He didn't say what he meant by the comment.

"This guy is scared. There's really no other way of saying it. The pressure, media, the attention, the fight — it all got to him, and I think he really cracked under pressure."

Paul said fight withdrawals run in the family, referencing the time Tommy's half-brother Tyson pulled out of a Wladimir Klitschko rematch. "They have a history of doing so," he said. "It's just unfortunate. Who does this?

"I've fought with a broken nose, I've fought sick, in the last fight I fought with a hyperextended elbow. It's annoying."

Paul recently attended a press event with Tommy, Tyson, and their father John Fury. The promotion was not without incident as John made a lewd sexual remark about Paul's 26-year-old girlfriend.

24-year-old Paul showed maturity in his response by simply dismissing 57-year-old John as "cringe as fuck."

On that incident, Paul told us: "I've known the whole, entire time that they're a sleazeball family. And they're not very smart.

"All they know is fighting and boxing. They're sort of all cringe airheads who shouldn't be as celebrated as they are in their country, but there's not a whole ton of stars over there. There's not anyone else to look to. Again, it is what it is.

"He will get knocked out eventually — both of them [Tommy and Tyson]. I told Tyson, 'Hey, why don't you come down to cruiserweight? And we can run it back because Tommy's too much of a bitch.' But they don't want to do that."

Paul continued: "I'm a little upset I don't get to take out Tommy Fury, but it is what it is. This is boxing. Opponents pull out of fights all the time, so, moving on, we're now going to get this KO over Tyron."

Woodley hit Paul with a helluva shot in their first fight

Paul fought Woodley before.

He was the toughest opponent "The Problem Child" had faced so far, bringing championship pedigree from the UFC into the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse ring in Cleveland back in August.

That pedigree emerged in the fourth round when Woodley smacked Paul harder than he'd ever been smacked in a pro bout before, sending him to the ropes.

He could have become a meme, gotten embarrassed, and unfolded on live television but Paul rebounded to land more punches in the fifth, sixth, and seventh rounds, according to Compubox data sent to Insider at the time.

Paul eventually won by split decision, outlanding the comparatively gunshy Woodley 71 punches to 52.

On the fourth-round punch, Paul remembers thinking: "Wow, that was a good shot!"

He told us: "I've been hit with a bunch of good shots in sparring, so you just calculate exactly what you got hit with, and why. And then make the adjustment to make sure you don't get hit with it again.

"I was just like, 'Okay, this is the first time being hit in a real, big fight. The world is probably pretty happy right now but I'm still going to come back and win the next couple of rounds."

Woodley tattooed himself to earn the rematch

—Tyron T-Wood Woodley (@TWooodley) September 27, 2021

As Woodley lost the fight, and Paul is a renowned combat sports troll, the veteran MMA fighter was duty-bound to get an "I love Jake Paul" tattoo.

Days passed without any indication Woodley would add the ink, and he then dropped a surprising photograph of the completed work.

Because of this, "he's earned the rematch," Paul told us, adding that: "He's been training this entire time.

"Again, it's a massive fight. I had some friends text me, saying, man, I'm even more excited to watch this one. I think there's people out there who might feel let down, but also a ton of people who really wanted to see the rematch."

He finished by remarking: "I've gotten a lot better in this camp and I've made a ton of adjustments so I'm going to come in looking like a completely different fighter, and get the knockout to leave no doubt."

The Paul and Woodley fight goes ahead December 18 and will be available to watch on Showtime pay-per-view.